If money can’t buy happiness, can it at least buy control over others? Xiang is hard-working, running a small sesame oil business. Read More »
Tag Archives: China
Temptress Moon (1996) Kaige Chen, Leslie Cheung, Li Gong, Kevin Lin
Not far from Shanghai, in a country twon stands the palatial home of the Pang family. Read More »
Still Life (2006) Zhangke Jia, Tao Zhao, Zhou Lan, Sanming Han
Against the backdrop of the mammoth Three Gorges Dam engineering project in the declining city of Fengjie Read More »
Nuan (2003) Jianqi Huo, Xiaodong Guo, Teruyuki Kagawa, Jia Li
Like Huo’s Postmen in the Mountains, Nuan is a rural drama. The film follows Lin Jinghe, a young man who Read More »
King of the Children (1987) Kaige Chen, Yuan Xie, Xuewen Yang, Shaohua Chen
Set during the twilight of the Cultural Revolution, Chen Kaige’s third film, King of the Children Read More »
Weekend Lover (1995) Ye Lou, Nai An, Hongshen Jia, Xiaoqing Ma
The film follows a young man, A Xi who is recently released from prison. Read More »
Red Amnesia (2014) Xiaoshuai Wang, Zhong Lü, Yuanzheng Feng, Hailu Qin
Deng is a stubborn retired widow who spends her days caring about her two grown up sons and her elderly mother, despite her family efforts to stop her. Read More »
11 Flowers (2011) Xiaoshuai Wang, Jingchun Wang, Wenqing Liu, Guo Liuxing Zhong
11-year-old Wang lives with his family in a remote village in China. Life is tough, but they make the most of what little they have. Read More »
Shanghai Dreams (2005) Xiaoshuai Wang, Yuanyuan Gao, Bin Li, Hao Qin
In the 1980s, encouraged by the government, a large number of families leave Chinese cities to settle in the poorer regions of the country, in order to develop local industry. Read More »
Chongqing Blues (2010) Xiaoshuai Wang, Xueqi Wang, Bingbing Fan, Hao Qin
Lin, a sea captain, returns from a 6 month journey when he is told that his 25-year-old son Lin Bo has been gunned down by the police. Read More »
Green Hat (2004) Fendou Liu, Yitian Hai, Congxi Li, Haibin Li
In the old days in China, a male servant working in a brothel traditionally wore a green scarf. Read More »
River Without Buoys (1984) Tian-Ming Wu, Ronghua Hu, Wei Li, Baosen Song
Three men steer timber rafts on the Xiaohui river. Fifty-something Pan Laowu is still single. Read More »
Postman (1995) Jianjun He, Jue Chen, Yuanzheng Feng, Zhixing Ge
Postman tells the Decalogue-like story of Xiao Dou, an introverted young postal worker who is suddenly promoted from installing mail boxes to delivering letters. Read More »
Girl From Hunan (1986) U Lan, Fei Xie, Renhua Na, Xiaoguang Deng, Zongxiang Guan
China, 1900. Xiaoxiao, a girl of about 12, comes to a mountain village for an arranged marriage with a two-year-old boy, Chunguan. Read More »
The World (2004) Zhangke Jia, Tao Zhao, Taishen Cheng, Jue Jing, Drama
“The World” is a theme park on the outskirts of Beijing, sixteen kilometers from the Chinese capital Read More »